Improvement in insoles



UNITED STATES BRADLEY S. BRYANT, OF HANSON, MASSACHUSETTS IMPROVEMENT IN INSOLES.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 123,675,dated February 13, 1872.

To all to whom thesepresents shall come Be it known that I, BRADLEv S. BRYANT, of Hanson, in the county of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improved Inner Sole to-Boots and Shoes i and that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to-the accompanying plate of drawing.

This improved inner sole is composed of a blank, having the outline of a persons foot,

that is made from paper or other suitable sheet material and has either one or. both of its surfaces coated' or covered with a iiock of wool, silk, cotton, hair, or of other suitable material, which is caused to adhere by cements or other suitable adhesive material--prefera bly a water or sweat-proof cement-previously applied to said surfaces of innersole blank.

In the accompanying plate of drawing my improved inner sole is illustrated, Figure l being a plan view of the same, and Fig. 2 a central section in the direction of its length.

A in the drawing represents my improved inner sole. This inner sole A, in the present instance, is shown as composed of a blank, a,

that is cutfrom a sheet of paper in the outline of a persons foot, and its surfaces b covered or coated with a flock of wool, silk, cotton, hair, or other suitable material, represented in the drawing by a heavy black line each side of the blank a. This coating of flock' is securedto the blank a by preparing its lsurin many respects desirable, among which may be mentioned that, While costing but little compared With inner soles as heretofore made,

it is serviceable, durable, and neat 5 and with and the other left exposed.

In the drawing the inner sole is shown as made with perforations, c; these are for the purpose of ventilation, and in the manufacture of the inner sole I shall probably make perforations in the blank; but I do not intend to limit my invention to the use of them. The perforations may be made either before or after Hocking; vand if before, and by docking over them they are made rather small, it is obvious they will be shielded from view by the iiock, while, at the same time, ventilation can take place.

- It may be well to here observe that there are many and various well-known cements which may be used to secure-the ock to the blank; but those cements are preferable which, while fastening the flock, will not penetrate the paper or other sheet material of which the blank is to be made sufficient to destroy its character and firmness.

Although I have herein described my inner V Having thus described my invention, What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As a new article of manufacture, an inner sole, for use in boots and shoes, covered with iiock, substantially as herein described.

B. S. BRYANT.

Witnesses:

` EDWIN W. BROWN,

ALBERT W. BROWN. 

